InterContinental Sydney has today announced a reinvigorated culinary series throughout its restaurants and bars, each designed to offer a unique taste of winter-inspired flavour and technique. Conceptually lead by InterContinental Sydney Director Food & Beverage Gabor Szikla and team of talented chefs, the winter trio will launch with:

• A truffle degustation inside multi award-winning 117 dining
• The signature winter-inspired cocktail atop Supper Club
• All-new wine experiences through coravin technology in The Cortile

117 DINING TAKE THE TRUFFLE TRADITION TO NEW HEIGHTS

It's a culinary rite of pass passage: truffle season. To celebrate, 117 dining has designed a five-course truffle degustation menu inside the two grand dining rooms of the hotel's signature restaurant.

With hand-selected truffles sourced from local suppliers, Lowes Mount Perigord Truffle in NSW, the team present a three-course savoury, pre-dessert and main dessert tasting menu, blending truffle throughout select ingredients to work in harmony with each course. Truffle-devotees will devour truffle pasta with burnt butter sabayon, truffle corn-fed chicken and risotto, braised shoulder lamb with truffle parsnip, rose & quince sorbet and the signature black truffle ice cream.

Pricing and availability: Available every Friday & Saturday from 23 June until 5 August; $139 for five courses, $184 with matched wines.
 
SUPPER CLUB BY INTERCONTINENTAL SYDNEY LAUNCHES THE GOLDEN WHISTLER  

Inspired by the beloved hot chocolate tradition, Head Bars Manager, John Toubia, has appropriated the tried classic, offering The Golden Whistler from June 20 throughout winter. Exclusive to the heights of Supper Club, The Golden Whistler arrives as a hot chocolate cocktail infused with Cognac, Baileys, spiced salt caramel, botanic bitters and InterContinental milk chocolate, served with house-made petit fours and a trio of milk, white and dark chocolate sheets.

The hot chocolate cocktail presents in old-fashioned pewter silver tea pots and vintage tea cups, inspired by the heritage and history of InterContinental Sydney.

Pricing and availability: Available every Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 8:00pm in Supper Club from 20 June; $30.00 per cocktail.  

CORAVIN TECHNOLOGY OPENS THE GATEWAY TO FINE WINE

Rare variants are now on offer by the glass inside The Cortile, following the launch of all-new coravin technology from resident sommelier, Robert Knight. Coravin enables access to the globe's finest corked wine bottles without breaking the seal, offering rare blends by the glass. Current halo wines available by the glass include Penfolds Grange 2012, Penfolds RWT Shiraz 2011 and internationally renowned wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Pricing and availability: Available 7 days a week in The Cortile; menu and pricing found here.

 -ENDS-

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About InterContinental Sydney: InterContinental Sydney was established over 25 years ago within the sandstone facades of the historic 1851 Treasury building. The hotel boasts unique views of the world famous Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House, as well as across the Royal Botanic Gardens and out to Sydney's North Head. As the ultimate hotel of choice for visitors and locals alike, InterContinental Sydney offers leisure and business guests a series of delectable flavours from the Cortile, Cafe Opera and Club InterContinental venues. The hotel provides 15 meeting and event rooms to suit a range of functions. Guests of InterContinental Sydney can immerse themselves in majestic sunrises and sunsets from the hotel's harbour view rooms or from the city's only alfresco rooftop hotel lounge, Club InterContinental; internationally renowned as the world's best. Some people visit Sydney's icons, others stay in them. For more information, visit http://www.icsydney.com.au/